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Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by voltagex_ »

daveloyall wrote: post #47
nailer wrote: post #3

> Leverage Windows crypto api’s instead of OpenSSL/LibreSSL and run as Windows Service Was wondering about that. I'm surprised the OpenBSD team is accepting the commits - something so fundamental and Windows specific doesn't seem like their kind of thing - but great! PS. If you're coming from a Unix background and interested in learning posh: https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone

> PS. If you're coming from a Unix background and interested in learning posh: https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone I stopped reading this when I got to this part: whois 'domain [domain name]' --> $web = New-WebServiceProxy 'http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?WSDL' $web.GetWhoIs('[domain name]') It's cute that there is some kind of VBScript for calling web services, but this line tells me that this document must h…

Or hell, use something like https://github.com/bone187/PowerShell-Whois/blob/master/whoi.... I like PowerShell but sometimes the community makes me wonder.

Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by voltagex_ »

phippsbrad wrote: post #21

I have had really good luck with this open source, native windows, ssh server. http://www.kpym.com/2/kpym/index.htm I have no affiliation with the project, i just thought i'd mention that it is a nice alternative i found.

Blargh. Another OSS project that doesn't expose any kind of version control (7zip is the worst offender). I know, gift horse etc etc but it does make it hard to track the history / future of the project.

Also looks like it hasn't been updated since 2011.

Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by voltagex_ »

asdfaoeu wrote: post #60
guelo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would the OpenBSD team not accept the commits? It is just linking to a system library that will always be present on the platform. It's like saying Windows opensource should be forced to use some thrid party filesystem library.

My guess is they won't just write an openssl to schannel shim and instead sprinkle ifdefs throughout the code which would be a recipe for disaster. Looking at the new code I feel like the chances this ever makes it upstream to pretty close to 0.

Raise an issue and ask?

Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by nailer »

daveloyall wrote: post #47
nailer wrote: post #3

> Leverage Windows crypto api’s instead of OpenSSL/LibreSSL and run as Windows Service Was wondering about that. I'm surprised the OpenBSD team is accepting the commits - something so fundamental and Windows specific doesn't seem like their kind of thing - but great! PS. If you're coming from a Unix background and interested in learning posh: https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone

> PS. If you're coming from a Unix background and interested in learning posh: https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone I stopped reading this when I got to this part: whois 'domain [domain name]' --> $web = New-WebServiceProxy 'http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmx?WSDL' $web.GetWhoIs('[domain name]') It's cute that there is some kind of VBScript for calling web services, but this line tells me that this document must h…

The main aim is to be useful. Someone who wants to lookup Whois is better served by giving them something that will achieve that task.

If you have other suggestions though, send a pull request. The project has already gotten a bunch from the SmartOS and FreeBSD communities.

Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by bad_user »

togusa wrote: post #31
kasabali wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a valid concern. On the other hand, win32 has a strong developer community with 20+ years of legacy as the primary API of Windows. Now only if Microsoft hadn't try to screw its own developers by trying to push a new framework every 5 years.

It does but as you say due to the emperor's new clothes every few years, the loyalty isn't there now. I know of no companies doing greenfield desktop dev that are using any of their tech. It's all Qt, CEF, python/wx and JavaFX. Even the financial companies we deal with who were pretty heavy with the WPF are canning it next cycle. Incumbent MFC, Winforms and WPF stuff will live as long as VB6 did (and still does) thou…

> Edit as HN won't let me reply

But it does, it just hides the link. All you have to do is to go to the child's comment by clicking the time link, then you'll get a reply box. In your case the comment you probably want to reply to is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10416018

Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by [deleted] »

daveloyall wrote: post #49
PlzSnow wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No.

Sorry, I don't understand this response. Are you saying that you are familiar with the events that DonnyV is referring to but you are confident that they are mere legend? That you disagree with the published accounts? Or are you saying that you are not familiar with that particular scandal, you've never heard of it, and your response is simply "Not that I know of."?

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Re: OpenSSH for Windows update

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Post by joosters »

daveloyall wrote: post #44
cakes wrote: post #39

I'm interested in how this is going to work in PowerShell with the way everything works now, if there happen to be any details about that (whether here, somewhere else, or a past link)?

I don't know anything about PowerShell, but I have a similar question, I think: how is this going to work? Will I be able to do something like this command line (from my *nix machine)? ssh user@windows.machine.local dir d: | less

You should be able to do that just fine. 'dir d:' runs on the windows box and 'less' on the unix box.
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